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Virtual Hosting / Virtualised Servers

Virtual servers (sometimes known as VPS) offer an excellent compromise between more costly dedicated servers and lower performance shared hosting. Virtual servers use virtualisation software to divide a single physical server in to separate 'virtual' machines - each with its own operating system and software.

Server virtualisation offers all the control and flexibility of a dedicated server - at a fraction of the cost.

Benefits of virtual server hosting

Your website is not affected by the performance of other sites on the same server
You have complete remote control of your virtualised server
Total flexibility over operating systems and software
Lower costs than a fully dedicated server

Virtualisation software

We use leading-edge software from Parallels and VMware to virtualise our servers.

Flexible, configurable software

Run scripting languages of your choice (e.g. PHP, ASP.net, ColdFusion, etc)
Choose from Microsoft SQL and MySQL databases
Full root access to your virtualised server for installation and configuration of software

Full 24-hour technical support and management

Often with a virtual server, you are left to your own devices with the server's configuration and maintenance. We provide a fully managed service - assisting you whenever required with installing software, configuring the server, managing databases - and even updating and maintaining your website itself if required.

24 / 7 / 365 manned data centre
24-hour online technical support ticketing system
A 24-hour support phone line is manned by our own technicians in our head office in Southampton, Hampshire
No automated systems, no message-taking services, no overseas call-centres.

Backups and Disaster Recovery

Our virtual servers are housed in a specialist, secure data-centre
All files and databases on your server automatically backed-up each day
Backups are hosted in a separate off-site data centre
Backups can be restored to your server within mintues via the backup manager software